Word: insights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Overall, however, Lee did give the viewers a fair insight into what life might be like at a Black college. And Lee managed to bring attention to the issues that have torn the Black community apart for years. He made a clear plea for Blacks to throw aside their differences and join together, united once and for all. Lee's message rang through every scene and was spotlighted in the finale: it is time for Black Americans to "wake-up" to their problems and together find new ways to solve them...
...Communist Party foreign policy line. "Grim Grom," he was called in the West, for his ever gloomy expression, which seldom betrayed what was on his mind. Now Gromyko, who was Foreign Minister for 28 years until taking the mostly ceremonial post of President in 1985, is allowing a rare insight into his thoughts. In Pamyatnoye (Remembrance), a two-volume, 850-page autobiography that is on sale in Moscow, Gromyko describes, among other things, the late Mao Zedong's proposal to use nuclear weapons against U.S. troops -- and his own brief infatuation with Marilyn Monroe...
Unfortunately, the price of applying Stone's journalistic skills to the great texts was a lack of philosophical insight. Treating the ancient texts like modern-day government documents, Stone doesn't seem to have been interested in grappling with the secondary literature written on Plato and Socrates during the past millenia or two. Most egregious of all is his failure to deal with the controversial interpretations made by the man most responsible for the renaissance of classical studies in recent years...
...insight of Socrates, argued Leo Strauss, was that the rule of philosopher-kings was both necessary and impossible. The Republic, by this account, is really a massive excercise in irony, a lesson less in how to construct a utopia than in the limits of what we can reasonably expect from politics. Stone, attributing this interpretation to one "Alan [sic] Bloom", writes that, "Plato could hardly have spent his life spoofing himself...
Such moments supposedly provide insight into a hidden reality. In a flash they divulge the inner self, the man behind the mask. They are video epiphanies, what media wizards call a "defining moment." The viewer does not so much receive information as he does an impression. From that impression an opinion may be formed, and based on that opinion, a vote may be cast...